Archive for category WPF

Why WPF? This is why…

http://dnrtv.com/default.aspx?showID=115 Just awesome!  I didn’t see anything far fetched other than they must have a great designer on staff.  I wonder if the designer was doing the Blend work?

MiniMVC for WPF

Tonight I presented for the Dayton .Net Developers Group on WPF.  Unlike my previous Lap Around WPF @ CONDG which was meant as a beginners guide to WPF, this time we were skipping the basics and plunging into a framework I’ve dubbed MiniMVC.  MiniMVC is, primarily, a set of DependencyProperties and custom ICommand‘s which allow [...]

New Year Indeed

It has been quite a New Year so far.  As of today, Monday January 14th 2008, I have left Speedway and the Speedy Rewards™ team and found new employment with SDS Consulting and I have new eyes courtesy of Lasik Plus of Dayton.  I’d say that’s a fairly ambitious first two weeks. I’m still working [...]

WPF Controls TabIndex: Moving to the First Input Control

Here’s one of those real-world situations that no one bothers to demo.  If you are building a form or have some sort of input your gathering from the user, you’ll likely want the first input control Focused initially.  You have a few ways to do this (in ascending order of recommendation): Call Focus() on the [...]

Lap Around WPF @ CONDG

This evening the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group was nice enough to let me present on WPF.  Everything went fairly well, though it was more a test of my efficiency in WPF development than I had planned; I managed to leave behind the external hard drive that had my code-snippets, slides (both of them), and [...]